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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 98f76f9 | Some are perfectly satisfied with what they have; they eat, drink, impregnate their wives, and take life as it comes. Others can never forget that they are being cheated; that life tempts them to struggle by offering them the essence of sex, of beauty, of success; and that she always seems to pay in counterfeit money. | Colin Wilson | ||
| fe2affe | You turned your head to look at me. Your eyes looked so big in your face, so mysterious -- wide and flickering like a butterfly-wing mask. When you saw me the wails turned to sobs, and then just quieter heaves of your body. I held out my finger through the bars. Then you reached out and curled your fingers around mine, so tight. I knew you recognized me. That was the first time I knew I had a heart inside my body. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| b1cfd5b | Non sum qualis eram. I am not what I once was. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 57e1a3c | He smells like night-blooming flowers Crushed, juicy petals on the pillows His voice is full of ocean Humming like the surf He kneels before me like I am his goddess He is a god | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| e97f501 | She pushed the gardener away and called for them. In her sleep she had seen love. It was poisoning. It was possessing. Devouring. Or it was seven pairs of boots climbing up the stairs to find her. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 9dde989 | In order to have bliss you have to be able to accept all the parts of the other, all the wildness and the darkness. You have to be able to hold on. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 2da3cde | We try on different dresses, different selves, but our souls are always the same - ongoing, full of light. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| e3d5320 | More poignant for us, at Laetoli in Tanzania are the companionable footprints of three real hominids, probably Australopithecus afarensis, walking together 3.6 million years ago in what was then fresh volcanic ash. Who does not wonder what these individuals were to each other, whether they held hands or even talked, and what forgotten errand they shared in a Pliocene dawn? | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 4b8073a | The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from the latin mundus, meaning 'the world'. And the world is anything but dull: The world is wonderful. There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| edaf28e | Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use. The mere presence in the dictionary of a word like 'living' does not mean it necessarily has to refer to something definite in the real world. | living reality science suffering tools words | Richard Dawkins | |
| 3de1ff2 | The story of Doubting Thomas is told, not so that we shall admire Thomas, but so that we can admire the other apostles in comparison. Thomas demanded evidence ... The other apostles, whose faith was so strong that they did not need evidence, are held to us as worthy of imitation. | religion | Richard Dawkins | |
| 9c7a522 | We are survival machines-robot vehicles blindly programmer to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment. Though I have known it for years, I never seem to get fully used to it. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| a44954e | The adult world may seem a cold and empty place, with no fairies and no Father Christmas, no Toyland or Narnia, no Happy Hunting Ground where mourned pets go, and no angels - guardian or garden variety. But there are also no devils, no hellfire, no wicked witches, no ghosts, no haunted houses, no daemonic possession, no bogeymen or ogres. Yes, Teddy and Dolly turn out not to be really alive. But there are warm, live, speaking, thinking, adu.. | childhood reason | Richard Dawkins | |
| 67ca3c3 | There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children, God in the case of adults) has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point. . . . The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed. | life meaning | Richard Dawkins | |
| a795fbf | Head's all empty, I don't care,' he'd sing to me, quoting the Grateful Dead, and I'd force a smile, thinking that my head was never empty and that if it ever was, you could be darn sure I'd care. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 48b02de | They tried to bury us. They didn't know we were seeds." --MEXICAN PROVERB" | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 612ecef | But what we're really trapped by is perceptions. You think you need to lose weight for someone to love you. I think if I gain weight, no one will love me. What we really need is to just stop thinking of ourselves as bodies and start thinking of ourselves as people. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 7079beb | mooo," she said... "I mean mmmm," she moaned. Louder this time. Goddamn Dr. Seuss is ruining my sex life." | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| b427e8d | This is so much harder than I ever thought it would be...because the thing is, even if you're just working part-time, your boss is going to expect a full week's worth of work, no matter how understanding she is. That's just the nature of the working world-things have to get done, babies or not. And if you're like me-if you're like any woman who ever did well in school and did well at her job-you don't want to disappoint a boss. And you want.. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 70e9897 | To be conformed to Jesus, we must first begin to think as Jesus did. We need the "mind of Christ." We need to value the things He values and despise the things He despises. We need to have the same priorities He has. We need to consider weighty the things He considers weighty." | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 739191c | Confidence is one thing, disrespect is quite another. (Justice Elizabeth Knight) | David Baldacci | ||
| 633fa8c | Because life doesn't work that way. You can do everything perfectly. Do everything you think you're supposed to be doing. Fulfill every expectation that other people may have. And you still won't get the results you think you deserve. Life is crazy and maddening and often makes no sense. | David Baldacci | ||
| dd14a09 | Time doesn't really heal, it just makes you not to give a crap | David Baldacci | ||
| 0a16e65 | I'll not punish you for having an imagination. | Betty Smith | ||
| 4764526 | No matter where its seed fell, it made a tree which struggled to reach the sky. It grew in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps, and it was the only tree that grew out of cement. It grew lushly, but only in the tenements districts.... That was the kind of tree it was. It liked poor people. | Betty Smith | ||
| 20aaebb | When night draws back the curtain, And pins it with a star, Remember you are still my friend, Though you may wander far | Betty Smith | ||
| a271f8e | Clarity is of no importance because nobody listens and nobody knows what you mean no matter what you mean, nor how clearly you mean what you mean. But if you have vitality enough of knowing enough of what you mean, somebody and sometime and sometimes a great many will have to realize that you know what you mean and so they will agree that you mean what you know, what you know you mean, which is as near as anybody can come to understanding a.. | Gertrude Stein | ||
| dd07f67 | Sometimes it's more painful to know the truth than not to know it." -Han Solo" -- | James Luceno | ||
| 75ceebb | Your life has nothing to do with you. It is about everyone whose life you touch and how you touch it. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 195f413 | The correct prayer is therefore never a prayer of supplication, but a prayer of gratitude. When you thank God in advance for that which you choose to experience in your reality, you, in effect, acknowledge that it is there...in effect. Thankfulness is thus the most powerful statement to God; an affirmation that even before you ask, I have answered. Therefore never supplicate. Appreciate. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| f0c391c | Now, you and I both know that I'll wait a lifetime for you - remember, Butterfly Weeds never give up - so take your time down there. And tonight, as you watch that big, orange sun disappear into the earth and your world gradually grow dark, I'll help God turn on the stars, and I'll wait for my dawn - when you return to me, Julia Stephens. I love you, My Butterfly. You'll always be my endless song. Love always and forever, Your one and only .. | will | Laura Miller | |
| ff16499 | You can't be another person's honesty, child, but you can be your own. | love relationships | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 5dc5528 | She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 6886ae7 | Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way. | parental-love unconditional-love | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 98ae47a | Where you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say. | home homeland | Jeanette Winterson | |
| d95c81e | I looked out across the Ocean, and determined to drown myself. I was up to my chin when the shout came, and I will never forget it. Never. For it seems to me that any hope in life is such a shout; a voice that answers the silent place of despair. It is silence that most needs an answering -- when I can no longer speak, hear me. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| f8b3f51 | It is true that words drop away, and that the important things are often left unsaid. The important things are learned in faces, in gestures, not in our locked tongues. The true things are too big or too small, or in any case is always the wrong size to fit in the template called language. | words | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 044783a | It was a long story, and like most of the stories in the world, never finished. There was an ending - there always is - but the story went on past the ending - it always does. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 039ca44 | I love you." "You've loved other people but you still left them." "It's not that simple." "I don't want to be another scalp on your pole." | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 3a854f7 | Nat Parson says it's the devil's mark." "Nat Parson's a gobshite." Maddy was torn between a natural feeling of sacrilege and a deep admiration of anyone who dared call a parson 'gobshite." | superstition | Joanne Harris | |
| f1c69d3 | I respect every way in which you are a troublemaker, now get up and do what your mother says. | Haven Kimmel | ||
| c13cff1 | In fact, true love cannot begin until the in-love experience has run its course. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 4b318dd | We are trained to analyze problems and create solutions. We forget that marriage is a relationship, not a project to be completed or a problem to solve. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 5474423 | Sometimes being fooled by love is worth the price. At least you know you're alive and capable of feeling, even if all you end up with is chest pain. | Sue Grafton |